Free to Die for Their Country
Subtitle: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780226548227
Subjects: American history: Second World War; Ethnic studies; Prisoners of war; Second World War, 1939-1945; History; History - Military / War; History: American; Japan; USA; Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies; Military - World War II; History / Military / World War II; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Conscientious objectors; Evacuation and relocation, 194; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans; United States; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: On the last day of spring in 1944, as American infantrymen began their assault on the Nazi-held port city of Cherbourg in northern France, the U.S. Army staged an induction ceremony for sixty-six new draftees in Idaho.